After failing to convince UK voters to give him and Labour the chance to see through the economic recovery and reform the banking industry, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown suddenly finds himself with a clear schedule. One way of filing it, as others before him have done, would be to take an advisory role in the City. But where to go? And who’d have him?

His predecessor Tony Blair landed himself a position as an adviser to JP Morgan shortly after leaving office in 2007 – but that was just before the banking industry went belly up – while John Major once held a similar role at Carlyle, the private equity firm known for hoovering up ex-politicans as advisers.

So where might Gordon consider offering his counsel?

Royal Bank of Scotland, the bank with the largest UK Government shareholding, would appear to be his best bet, according to respondents to a Financial News online poll. Almost half, 43%, of close to 200 respondents thought a job advising the bank was now the least he could do given that he as good as nationalised it.

However, just 5.7% thought the same about Lloyds Banking Group, which endured a shotgun marriage to HBOS under Brown’s tenure as Prime Minister.

Ten per cent of our readers thought his much-publicised “bigot” gaffe in Rochdale in the closing stages of his election campaign left him best-placed to coach Goldman Sachs on how not to boost its client relation efforts, while the same percentage believed it was time for him to return the favour to GLC, the UK hedge fund that backed Labour’s election push.

Staying with backers, and 15.1% said a role advising Nigel Doughty’s (the largest of the City’s Labour donors) buyout firm Doughty Hanson was his best bet.

And last but not least, what chance of a Brown/Blair reunion at JP Morgan? It’s what the crowd want to see…well, 16.2% of you did anyway. But Jamie Dimon be warned, these two have a history of deals that go sour.